These evil beings draw energy and power through these mass human sacrifices and occultic rituals.
Sometimes it's this. Sometimes it's war. Sometimes it's mass abortion. Other times it's 9/11.
Though I wonder. They used to have some level of cover and disguise. It seems that the mask has been slipping more and more.
This leads me to wonder whether or not the evil side has been systematically weakened, hence why they need to put on big overt public ritual displays.
They gain nothing by hiding in the shadows anymore, their only chance of success is by being overt and gathering as many dark followers as they can.
They need these rituals to maintain deception and power. And they need us to need them.
They are blood vampires and energy vampires.
The cabal believes these rituals work otherwise why would they have them. I don't think the ritual itself caused the earthquake but I believe that it was a foreshadowing of events to come. The cabal broadcasts these things not because they want to but because they have to. Putting them in plain sight so they can't say we didn't tell them, and they think by doing this they can escape judgement, which they won't.
The grammy ritual wasn't the first, and it won't be the last.